A chance meeting and a mutual friend helped bring about a rapprochement.

The rapprochement took place gradually, rather than at any sort of intense heart-to-heart meeting.

Warren St. John -- Outcasts United

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Then, in the midst of this delicate rapprochement, Outside magazine confirmed it was sending me to Everest.

Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air

I was saying to Hastings only yesterday that a rapprochement of the people concerned was needed.

Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders

There was between them a momentary rapprochement; but it could not last.

Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier

If it had taken twenty-nine years to drift apart, I knew that a few weeks of effort was simply the beginning of a long process of rapprochement.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Wedding

But that rapprochement did not last long, and Ferula was quick to realize that she had been used.

Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits

A failing out doesn’t preclude a later rapprochement, his mind retorted with a kind of grave and implacable calm.

Stephen King -- Cujo

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On all sides, indeed, there flourished a strong British party, and particularly in New England, where the so-called codfish aristocracy (by no means extinct, even today) exhibited an undisguised Anglomania, and looked forward confidently to a /rapprochement/ with the mother country.

Henry L. Mencken -- The American Language

I suppose it was because it reminded me of the tender rapprochements that had worked so well to heal our differences in the past: if not burning passion, then at least a truce with a commitment to working things out.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Wedding

There would have been nothing else to talk about but a rapprochement between that estranged pair.